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The State asks this court to review the PCR judge’s grant of respondent’s PCR application on the grounds that respondent’s trial counsel failed to object to the trial judge’s refusal to charge voluntary manslaughter

In this opinion, the Court gave Solicitor Donald V. Myers a private reprimand for Myers' failure to properly supervise his Deputy Solicitor Fran Humphries. The Court also issued Myers a letter of caution for his tacit participation in his

In this class action, leaseholders challenged Santee Cooper's decision to sell their improved lots on several different theories, including breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation, and unjust enrichment.

This is an appeal from a death penalty case. Appellant alleges the trial judge erred by denying his motion for a new trial based on the assertion that contact between law enforcement and jurors' family members compromised the impartiality of the jury in contravention of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The Supreme Court has issued an order relating to how Rule 419, SCACR, is going to be applied to lawyers suspended prior to the adoption of that rule. Lawyers who were suspended prior to September 6, 2000, for the failure to pay bar license fees or the failure to comply with CLE requirements, have until June 1, 2004, to seek reinstatement and, if they fail to do so, their membership in the South Carolina Bar will be terminated.